Category Archives: Holidays

A Charlie Brown Christmas

The reason for the season

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

Every Christmas, after the presents are opened and breakfast is being made, I read this first in the paper (ye olde parental units get the paper, and they live in NJ). It is a Christmas classic that has always touched my soul. While some people outside of the Tri-State area have heard of it, rarely […]

Christmas Today: Mahmoud And Evil Christmas Lights

Hey, look it’s the dictator who Barry wants to have one on one convo’s with, and told Barry, “um…no.” Iran’s president is offering season’s greetings to Christians in a British TV address and suggests that if Jesus were alive, he would oppose “bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers” – an apparent reference to the U.S. and […]

AGW Today: Your Christmas Feast Is Now Bad

Is there nothing that the Climahysterics won’t attack? Festive feasts ‘contributing to climate change’ Wasted food at Christmas time is now being highlighted as an environmental problem. Jon Dee, the chairman of Do Something, says gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts. Well, […]

Those Wacky Muslims Show Liberal Style Tolerance In Nazareth

While even the worlds most famous athiest, Richard Dawkins, does a bit of Christmas celebration, some Muslims have to take a dip into Liberal World As Nazareth’s Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas, they are playing down the appearance of a confrontational Islamic banner that challenges a elemental Christian belief. Journalists visiting the city saw two […]

Retailers Taking The Christmas Out Of Christmas

Anyone surprised? And with the holiday that dare not speak its name almost upon us, nowhere is that phenomenon more noticeable, or more indefensible, than in the advertising sales circulars of the national retail chains that come by the dozen in newspapers, especially on Sundays. A review of those sales brochures from the day after […]

Christmas Cookies Deemed “Unethical”

This is actually one of the last areas I would have expected to see this kind of story, the Deep South, but, here we go After asking the state Board of Ethics last month whether library staff can accept inexpensive and homemade Christmas gifts from grateful patrons, St. Tammany Parish library officials last week received […]

Christmas Surprise In East Wenatchee

I do truly like these types of cheerful stories more then the ones about people trying to do away with Christmas, don’t you? EAST WENATCHEE (Washington) — Dressed head-to-toe in military fatigues, her camouflage pants tucked into combat boots and her hair pulled back in a tight bun, Maureen Peltier stood nervously outside a classroom at […]

A Star Wars Christmas

Heh. Cracked. Worst. Christmas. Ever.

Santa In Iraq

Spreading the holiday cheer Santa brought some Christmas cheer to the lives of Iraqi children gathered at Baghdad’s International Zone on Friday, handing out presents and posing for photographs. Dozens of Christian and Muslim children came together for the occasion which appeared to be well received by all. Bill Shober who dressed up as Santa […]

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